Rutgers-Princeton Graduate Philosophy Philosophy Conference

2009 Schedule

Saturday, March 28
Day 1 (Princeton):

10:00 – Breakfast
10:30 – Opening Keynote. Professor Michael Smith (Princeton): Beyond Belief and Desire; Or, How to Be Orthonomous
12:00 – Break
12:20 – Rachel Sterkey (St. Andrews): Generics, Semantic Blindness and Mosquitoes
13:30 – Lunch Break
15:00 – Noel Saenz (Western Michigan): Is Modal Fictionalism a Fiction?
16:10 – Coffee Break
16:30 – Jason Konek (Michigan): Mixed Modality and Representation Theorems
17:40 – Reception
19:00 – Conference Dinner

Sunday, March 29
Day 2 (Rutgers):

11:00 – Brunch
11:30 – Justin Sytsma & Jonathan Livengood (Pittsburgh, HPS): The Case of the Divergent Descriptions
12:40 – Lunch Break
13:40 – Grant Reaber (Carnegie Mellon): When You Think Your Degree of Belief in a Proposition Might Influence the Chance of It Being True
14:50 – Break
15:00 – Colin Chamberlain (Harvard): Being True to Our Desires
16:10 – Coffee Break
16:30 – Closing Keynote. Professor Jeffrey King (Rutgers): TBA
18:00 – Reception
19:00 – Conference Dinner

Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
26 Nichol Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
1879 Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544